Re: Automatic deployment and maintenance

2007-07-18 Thread Mark Drago
On 7/17/07, Sebastien JUST <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ok I definitivly feels engaged in it. We'll talk about this off list. I shall ask people also, if they are also interesting in such a tool, or is somebody wanting to work on it too ? Sebastien Sebastien, I feel like it's important that w

Re: Automatic deployment and maintenance

2007-07-17 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 06:24:17AM +0200, Sebastien JUST wrote: > > For the workgroup, discussing is already a good start ! bon chance! A signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Automatic deployment and maintenance

2007-07-16 Thread Sebastien JUST
Mark Drago a écrit : On 7/15/07, Sebastien JUST <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Anyway, any interested people in such a tool, maybe we can create a small workgroup ? Sebastien, I am absolutely interested in working on such a tool. I've already created a similar tool for an RPM-based distribution,

Re: Automatic deployment and maintenance

2007-07-16 Thread Sebastien JUST
Andrew Sackville-West a écrit : On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 04:14:22AM +0200, Sebastien JUST wrote: Thanks for your answers. Andrew Sackville-West a écrit : again pushing is probably not good. But you could set up something to automate the pulling so that when you've tested updates on your testin

Re: Automatic deployment and maintenance

2007-07-16 Thread Mark Drago
On 7/15/07, Sebastien JUST <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Anyway, any interested people in such a tool, maybe we can create a small workgroup ? Sebastien, I am absolutely interested in working on such a tool. I've already created a similar tool for an RPM-based distribution, but that was created

Re: Automatic deployment and maintenance

2007-07-15 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 04:14:22AM +0200, Sebastien JUST wrote: > Thanks for your answers. > > Andrew Sackville-West a écrit : > >> again pushing is probably not good. But you could set up something to >> automate the pulling so that when you've tested updates on your >> testing machines, you can s

Re: Automatic deployment and maintenance

2007-07-15 Thread Sebastien JUST
Thanks for your answers. Andrew Sackville-West a écrit : I think you can probably use existing tools to do this without much difficulty. I have no great experience in this, so ignore the obvious failures on my part. First off, can you run these end-user machines as net boot machines? set up a

Re: Automatic deployment and maintenance

2007-07-14 Thread udo waechter
We are using puppet from www.reductivelabs.com which defines a declarative language where you tell what should be done on a certain computer or on a cluster. We have about 10 servers (fileserver, database, web, computing,...), and about 30+ desktop machines where we try to provide a consisten

Re: Automatic deployment and maintenance

2007-07-13 Thread Mark Drago
Sebastien, I have been looking for something very similar. I have the need to control ~300 machines that act as the gateway for many different networks. The software on the machines would be nearly identical. All of the decision about which packages get released to which machine would be contro

Re: Automatic deployment and maintenance

2007-07-13 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Jul 13, 2007 at 09:03:26AM +0200, Sebastien JUST wrote: > Hello > > I'm looking for software that could help me deploying, and keep track of > installed software on my machines. We have more 10 Debian servers and 40 > end-user machines. I think you can probably use existing tools to do t

Re: Automatic deployment and maintenance

2007-07-13 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Fri, Jul 13, 2007 at 09:03:26AM +0200, Sebastien JUST wrote: > Hello > > I'm looking for software that could help me deploying, and keep track of > installed software on my machines. We have more 10 Debian servers and 40 > end-user machines. > If the machines are identical (or even very simi

Automatic deployment and maintenance

2007-07-13 Thread Sebastien JUST
Hello I'm looking for software that could help me deploying, and keep track of installed software on my machines. We have more 10 Debian servers and 40 end-user machines. I dream of a software solution like this : - web based, - that could keep track of installed Debian machines, - that owns